Dolly madison and the creation of the american nation. And most recently she annotated and edited and important memoir written by Dolly Madisons niece. Katherine is the director of education at Huntington Library art collections Botanical Gardens and professor of history at the university of california riverside. Today she will discuss the republican queens identity during the war. This time when Dolly Madison strong room and her events were known as squeezes, they were so popular. Ive also heard that she is going to mention maybe the role of snuff in the war of 1812. I would encourage all of you later on to go take a look at Dolly Madisons snuff box which is over at the decatur house. We just brought that up from mount pillier today. Please join me in welcoming dr. Katherine algore. Thank you so much for that lovely introduction. Im tempted to just say forget about my speech, lets go look at the snuff box. But, no, no, no. Im very happy and honored to be here with such a distinguished
How to fight. Were eager to be on british as you know the United States naval warships. Opened the conflict with what should have been a threepronged offensive into what is now canada and a surge of war ships and privateers into the western they were fleeing to seek refuge during 1813, unlike the British Atlantic to cut britains economic lifelines. Deserter who anticipated a the canadian frontier became the better life in the republic, the main military theater and for three years heavily outnumbered former slave didnt want to go back to the republic. British regulars and canadian militia and warriors defended so they did not desert. As marines, they could be the border. Deployed to watch the white they had some troops into the sailors and pursue deserters. Canadian theater and they came from the west indies and not admiral coburn sought to replace from europe. Many of his White Marines with black recruits. And until after the end of the napoleonic conflict. As long as napoleon remaine
Killed or by their wounds. In other words, they died as a direct result of combat in the war. I did some calculations, and i found that in fact about 10 more of the army died of disease, sickness, and other causes that are not directly related to battle. They were simply a product of the very unhealthy nature of military camps, the inability to provide decent sanitation, these sorts of things, which diseases, if they got into an arm camp, they could go through and take a very heavy toll on life substantially more men died as a result of disease, sickness. And then theres a bit of colateral damage that occurs that millyisha die as a result of the british raids of the sort weve been talking about. We might estimate that 15,000, 16,000 americans died one way or another as a result of the war of 1812. The indians suffered i think proportionately higher percentage of lossesle we dont know precisely, because we dont have good figures for indian population, but of course the numbers that the
Welcome back, everybody. America under fire. For those of you who may be just joining us, if you have one of these little devices, if you could make sure it is turned off or in silent mode, that would be fantastic. I have the pleasure of introducing dr. Catherine allgor. She has the pleasure of tackling James Madisons other half, and some would say better half, Dolley Madison. Dr. Catherine allgor has written a few books, including a perfect union. Most recently, she annotated and edited an important memoir written by Dolley Madisons niece. She is professor of history at the university of california at riverside. Today, she will discuss the republican queens identity during the war. The time when her drawing room and events became known as squeezes. They were so popular. I have also heard that she will maybe mention the role of snuff. I would encourage all of you to go take a look at dolley isisons snuff box, which over at the decatur box. We just brought that from montpelier today. It
And i should actually add that into a note that specifies it for the Dolley Madison digital edition, but we only know what we know. We are out of time. Okay. May i ask welcome if you have one of these little devices, if you can make sure it is turned off or in the silent mood, that would be fantastic. Were going to tackled James Madisons other half and some might say his better half, Dolly Madison. Catherine has written several very important books including a perfect union. Most recently she annotated and edited an important memoir written by Dolly Madisons niece. Annotated and edited and important memoir written by Dolly Madisons niece. Katherine is the director of education at Huntington Library art collections Botanical Gardens and professor of history at the university of california riverside. Today she will discuss the republican queens identity during the war. This time when Dolly Madison strong room and her events were known as squeezes, they were so popular. Ive also heard tha